Sanfilippo Syndrome Type D
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIID (MPS-IIID), or Sanfilippo syndrome type D, is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in the N-acetylglucosamine-6-sulfatase (GNS) gene, leading to impaired degradation of heparan sulfate. OBJECTIVES: To report the natural history of MPS-IIID in 2 siblings described by Kaplan and Wolfe in 1987 and to study the phenotype in 2 other unrelated families with MPS-IIID. Design, Setting, and Patients Case series of 4 patients with MPS-IIID: 2 siblings followed up at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, 1 patient followed up at the UZ Brussel, and 1 patient recruited through the prenatal counseling program at the UZ Brussel. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Clinical and molecular data collected from 3 families with enzyme-based diagnosis of MPS-IIID. RESULTS: The course of the disease was characteristic of MPS-IIID in all patients, although survival may be longer than was previously reported. In family 1, both siblings were homozygous for a novel nonsense mutation in the GNS gene (c.1168C>T). In family 2, the proband carried a heterozygous mutation occurring in a splice recognition site in the intron 7 boundary (c.876-2A>G). The second mutation in this patient remains to be identified. In family 3, the proband was homozygous for a novel frameshift mutation in GNS due to the insertion of 5 nucleotides (c.1138_1139insGTCCT). CONCLUSIONS: Major issues in the care of patients with MPS-IIID include behavioral problems, sleep problems, recurrent infections, dysphagia, and pain from orthopedic complications. To date, all mutations in GNS predict protein truncation, and there is no obvious genotype-phenotype correlation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".